A talk about the Enlightenment with the literary Enlightenment author Angela Steidele

Between the covers of her novel Aufklärung (Enlightenment) Angela Steidele finds room not only for the characteristics and diversity of topics of the Enlightenment, but also for its distinct features, which she portrays with love and humour in the conversations and thoughts of the novel’s characters. At the same time she tells us something about our present. On the occasion of the exhibition “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the 18th Century”, Stephanie von Steinsdorff spoke with her about literary, philosophical and musical counterpoints as characteristics of the Enlightenment, about language in general which “cannot be overestimated in its importance”, about emancipation, and about the idea that one can “take a wrong turn” as happened in the 19^th century, and what that has to do with enlightenment and our present day.